Month: July 2019

Gamelan Sekar Jaya: Music of Bali Start Date: Saturday 9/21/2019 — End Date: Saturday 9/21/2019 Admission:Adults: $20 advance / $25 day of show, Kid (12 & u Gamelan Sekar Jaya is a sixty-member company of musicians and dancers, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in the performing arts of Bali. Founded in 1979, this internationally acclaimed group has presented more than four hundred concerts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Indonesia, in venues ranging from New York’s Symphony Space to remote village squares in Bali. The group’s success arises from its devotion to traditional repertoire and its passion for innovation with more than sixty major new works for Gamelan and dance. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/gamelan-sekar-jaya/

Mark Flood: Paintings from the Postwar Era Start Date: Saturday 9/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 10/26/2019 Admission:Free Ever Gold is pleased to present Paintings from the Postwar Era, Mark Flood’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Paintings from the Postwar Era features selections from the Heath series and the Monster series. Mark Flood has been described as irreverent, a prankster, and a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. Some people seem to think that he is criticizing society, or maybe just the art world. Google him. He makes paintings, sculptures, films, videos, and music. The Heath paintings are comprised of collections of internet images jumbled together on printed canvases—funny paintings for a world that has lost its since of humor. They are funny but safe, because no one can really say what they mean. The Monster paintings are hand-paintings on canvas of monsters—monsters of violence. These are paintings about violence in its most abstract form, for a world that is angry and bloodthirsty—paintings for those want justice, revenge, violence and war but are unwilling to expose their own values, lest they end up on the guillotine. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/mark-flood-3/

Downtown San Leandro’s Last “Truth Thursdays” of the Summer! Start Date: Thursday 8/22/2019 — End Date: Thursday 8/22/2019 Admission:Free Downtown San Leandro’s “Truth Thursdays” holds its final event of the summer on Thursday, August 22 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. surrounding the iconic 55-foot Truth is Beauty statue at the San Leandro Tech Campus. The community is invited to celebrate this summer’s last hoorah with an evening of live entertainment, rotating food trucks, beer, wine, recreational games and live music. The theme of the final “Season Bookend” event is to be announced! The “Truth Thursdays” summer event is hosted by Downtown San Leandro and is a series of community-driven events that take place the fourth Thursday of each month until this August. Location: 1600 Alvarado St San Leandro Contact: Davia davia@olivecreativestrategies.com URL: http://downtownsanleandro.com/

Live Organ & A Movie: Dial M For Murder Start Date: Sunday 8/25/2019 — End Date: Sunday 8/25/2019 Admission:$6.50 Join us for our Live Organ & A Movie series. Hosted by Matias Bombal and music played by Dave Moreno. This series combines live organ music, raffles, and a classic movie all rolled into one. We begin with Dave Moreno playing the theater’s historic Robert Morton Organ with a selection of themed musical pieces. Academy Award winners Grace Kelly and Ray Milland star with Robert Cummings in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers–Dial M for Murder. When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice discovers his rich wife, Margot is having an affair a with handsome American Mark Hallidy, he devises an ingenious plot to murder her. But when his scheme takes an unexpected, deadly twist, Tony improvises–implicating Margot for first degree murder in this classic spellbinder. Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: Carolyn August info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/

Shaina McCoy: A Family Affair Start Date: Saturday 9/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 10/26/2019 Admission:Free Shaina McCoy A Family Affair September 7 – October 26, 2019 Opening reception: September 7, 5-8 pm Regular hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-5 pm Ever Gold [Projects] presents A Family Affair, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Minneapolis-based artist Shaina McCoy. The exhibition features McCoy’s newest series of portrait paintings, which offer a constellation of tenderness and reverence based on the photographic archive of a black American family. Within this collection, she traces her own family heritage using a signature style of thick, glossy brush strokes and almost featureless faces. Each painting is based on a photograph from the McCoy family album and is rendered with bold and affectionate gestures. McCoy’s technique, through firmly influenced by the traditions of Impressionism, has a unique capacity to hover over the precipice of familiarity and anonymity; she gives her audience just enough information for a spark of recognition, be it a face, a shirt, or a room, while also withholding the bristling realism that we are so accustomed to in our increasingly high-definition world. Her images function more like memories or afterimages than documentation. The usual requisite sentimentality of such personal work is reserved, even concealed, by the lack of recognizable facial features, which are perhaps only hinted at with a particular swoosh this way or that. McCoy’s style of portraiture, at once gooey and flat, rejects a paradigm of artificial facial recognition, one in which our cherished images of loved ones are played back as automated, premade slideshow templates set to generic stock music. Instead, what she offers is both an honest record of a specific family and a relatable surface for the memories of others—a placeholder where one can project their own faded, idealized, or troubled visions of relatives posing, eating, and gathering across generations. In the current moment, the threshold between private and public identity is blurrier than ever and our relationship to the preservation and ownership of our own images is constantly being contested. If social media platforms capitalize on our archival impulses and our use of image-making for the construction of social identities, then it is a precarious contract between the needs of the user and those of the corporations who manage, distribute, and ultimately control their circulation. In A Family Affair, McCoy has taken up the task of rerouting the power dynamic of this situation and has taken the act of photographic remembrance and identification into her own hands. What she has unearthed is a map for finding our way back to ourselves. Shaina McCoy (b. 1993, Minneapolis, MN) began painting while studying at the Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, MN) in 2012. She attended Normandale Community College from 2013-2014, and graduated with an Associate of Arts from Minneapolis Community and Technical College in 2018. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, CA), Gildar Gallery (Denver, CO), Art4Shelter (Minneapolis, MN), PLOT (Minneapolis, MN), and City Wide Artists Gallery (Minneapolis, MN). McCoy lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/shaina-mccoy-a-family-affair-september-7-october-26/

Live Organ & A Movie: Dial M For Murder Start Date: Thursday 8/29/2019 — End Date: Thursday 8/29/2019 Admission:$6.50 Join us for our Live Organ & A Movie series. Hosted by Matias Bombal and music played by Dave Moreno. This series combines live organ music, raffles, and a classic movie all rolled into one. We begin with Dave Moreno playing the theater’s historic Robert Morton Organ with a selection of themed musical pieces. Academy Award winners Grace Kelly and Ray Milland star with Robert Cummings in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers–Dial M for Murder. When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice discovers his rich wife, Margot is having an affair a with handsome American Mark Hallidy, he devises an ingenious plot to murder her. But when his scheme takes an unexpected, deadly twist, Tony improvises–implicating Margot for first degree murder in this classic spellbinder. Location: 351 Railroad Ave Old Town Pittsburg Contact: caroline info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/

Aggregate Animated Shorts | Special Screening I Start Date: Friday 8/2/2019 — End Date: Saturday 8/31/2019 Admission:$10 Aggregate Animated Shorts Third Annual International Short Film Festival 2 August – 31 August 2019 In our ongoing effort to present unique and challenging art experiences to the public, Aggregate Space Gallery is proud to launch this celebration of non-commercial and experimental animation. Animation, as a subset within video art, is unique in its versatility as a communicative form and its ability to place viewers inside adjacent realities. It is a medium without rules or restrictions, and its content can address ideas as simple or as complex as the animator intends. The exhibition will culminate in an award ceremony hosted by artist, animator, and Congratulations Pine Tree co-host, Kate Rhoades. We will be screening the top two films from each category, as well as a viewer’s choice award from each category. Viewer’s Choice categories will be rated by visitors to the gallery and our special screenings, so come by and judge these films by September 4 at Roxie! The event will also include a film by each of our exhibition jurors: Zeina Barakeh, Laneya Billingsley, Ryan D Lewis, Sarah Paulsen. Featuring shorts by: Melanie Clemmons, Jacob Docksey, Celia Eid and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Tess Elliot, Amy Fang, Gwendolyn Foster, Erinn Hagerty and Adam Savje, Santiago Insignares, Lacey Johnson, Shon Kim, Carey Lin and Gabriel Gilder, Tess Martin, Kathleen Quillian, Fu Yang Opening Reception 2 August 6-10pm Location: 5221 Central Ave Richmond Contact: Aggregate Space Gallery info@aggregatespacegallery.org URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/699959637122183/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aggregate-animated-sho

Aggregate Animated Shorts | Special Screening l Start Date: Sunday 8/11/2019 — End Date: Sunday 8/11/2019 Admission:$5 Third Annual International Short Film Festival 2 August – 31 August 2019 In our ongoing effort to present unique and challenging art experiences to the public, Aggregate Space Gallery is proud to launch this celebration of non-commercial and experimental animation. Animation, as a subset within video art, is unique in its versatility as a communicative form and its ability to place viewers inside adjacent realities. It is a medium without rules or restrictions, and its content can address ideas as simple or as complex as the animator intends. The exhibition will culminate in an award ceremony hosted by artist, animator, and Congratulations Pine Tree co-host, Kate Rhoades. We will be screening the top two films from each category, as well as a viewer’s choice award from each category. Viewer’s Choice categories will be rated by visitors to the gallery, so come by and judge these films by September 4 at Roxie! The event will also include a film by each of our exhibition jurors: Zeina Barakeh, Laneya Billingsley, Ryan D Lewis, Sarah Paulsen. Featuring shorts by: Melanie Clemmons, Jacob Docksey, Celia Eid and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Tess Elliot, Amy Fang, Gwendolyn Foster, Erin Hagerty and Adam Savje, Santiago Insignares, Lacey Johnson, Shon Kim, Carey Lin, Tess Martin, Kathleen Quillian, Fu Yang Opening Reception 2 August 6-10pm Location: 474 24th St Oakland Contact: Aggregate Space Gallery info@aggregatespacegallery.org URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/2308916272478028/

Aggregate Animated Shorts, Third Annual International Short Film Festival Start Date: Friday 8/2/2019 — End Date: Friday 8/2/2019 Admission:free In our ongoing effort to present unique and challenging art experiences to the public, Aggregate Space Gallery is proud to launch this celebration of non-commercial and experimental animation. Animation, as a subset within video art, is unique in its versatility as a communicative form and its ability to place viewers inside adjacent realities. It is a medium without rules or restrictions, and its content can address ideas as simple or as complex as the animator intends. The exhibition will culminate in an award ceremony hosted by artist, animator, and Congratulations Pine Tree co-host, Kate Rhoades. We will be screening the top two films from each category, as well as a viewer’s choice award from each category. Viewer’s Choice categories will be rated by visitors to the gallery, so come by and judge these films by September 4 at Roxie! The event will also include a film by each of our exhibition jurors: Zeina Barakeh, Laneya Billingsley, Ryan D Lewis, Sarah Paulsen. Featuring shorts by: Melanie Clemmons, Jacob Docksey, Celia Eid and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Tess Elliot, Amy Fang, Gwendolyn Foster, Erin Hagerty and Adam Savje, Santiago Insignares, Lacey Johnson, Shon Kim, Carey Lin, Tess Martin, Kathleen Quillian, Fu Yang Location: 411 26th St Northgate – Waverly Oakland Contact: Shaghayegh Cyrous info@aggregartespacegallery.org URL: facebook.com/aggregatespace

Singles TGIF Start Date: Saturday 8/17/2019 — End Date: Saturday 8/17/2019 Admission:10 We’re excited about our first Lamorinda party in many years, at a fun venue! Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress. Saturday, August 17, 2019, 4-6pm. Only $10 at the door includes all this: •Fun Mixer Game, with prizes •Complimentary light food, served at 4pm, as long as it lasts •Happy Hour Pricing throughout the party, including $7 well drinks and $7 appetizers! LOCATION: Taverna Pellegrini, 65 Moraga Way, Orinda CA. Free street parking. CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and many other singles organizations and meetups. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •It’s Raining Men!, July 20, Santa Clara •Pole Dancing Party, July 21, Oakland •An Evening in Hawaii, July 27, Silicon Valley •Russian River Kayaking, Aug 3, Healdsburg •Advanced Degrees Mixer, Aug 4, Sunnyvale •Singles TGIF, Aug 9, San Rafael •The Summer Ball at The Fairmont, Aug 24, San Francisco Location: 65 Moraga Way Northwood – Tara Orinda Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com